![]() ![]() The aim of the game is to win within the rules. They laugh with each other as they stretch their million pound muscles. Look at them out there: Your talking pawns. NOT DYNASTIC MANAGERS: Carlo Ancelotti, Guus Hiddink And you will rule it as you please.ĭYNASTIC MANAGERS: Sir Alex Ferguson, Roberto Martinez You will almost certainly push too far and tarnish your own legacy in doing so. You try to pile success onto success onto success. That’s the real challenge, isnt it? You exist only to continue to exist. Win the title once and you’ll only want to win it again. There is no culminating point of success that marks the moment the mission is accomplished. There is no discernible end for a dynastic manager. ![]() ![]() You’ll watch your star players carefully, and you’ll be ruthless enough to dump them when they need to be dumped. You’ll be aware of changing tactics and you’ll know when to adapt. But that won’t stop you from acting as though you will be. Few are still there when the five years are up. Everyone likes the sound of a five year plan. Of course, it might not work out like that. “He was the best there will ever be,” they will say. And they’ll pay tribute to your talents whenever you meet. By that point, with the right kind of advice and a few hushed phonecalls, most of your current players will be your rival managers. You have scouts prowling the international youth tournaments looking for the boy who will be your star man in ten years time. You ask what role they could play in the future. You do not ask what role they are playing now. You have coaches preparing the players, not just for their next opponents, but for their future. You intend to be there to see it all happen. You are even aware of a bright talent at U13 level who you can see anchoring your midfield in the future. You know who among the U18 squad has the best chance to prevail. You know exactly which members of the elite development squad are truly elite and which are destined to drift out of the big time. Your mind’s eye reaches further than that. You’re not even thinking about the next season. When other managers claim that they’re only thinking about the next game, you scoff. What can the career path of Brendan Rodgers tell us that might assist an aspiring manager? What has Joe Kinnear taught us about media relations? And is it really worth having a youth academy if you’re minted? Or, more pertinently, if you’re not? But perhaps it’s just as important to ask yourself a question: What kind of football manager do you want to be? The Football Manager Guide to Football Management looks at every aspect of this increasingly scrutinised role and asks whether there are lessons from history to be learned that might help with the game itself. It’s just that some of us haven’t been appointed yet. ![]()
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